Blizzard
Welcome to an early look at patch notes for the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion: Warlords of Draenor. The new expansion introduces a wealth of new content and changes. There's also a new patch note format, which we hope will help better convey the reasoning for many of the changes being made and what they mean for you, while providing more background into issues we're trying to solve.
Please be aware that
the patch notes are preliminary and not final. Details may change before retail release and new information will be added for additional features as development continues on the Warlords of Draenor expansion.
For more information about Alpha testing and how you can opt in for a chance to participate in the Warlords of Draenor beta test later down the line, check out
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Looking for a TL;DR summary of all of the changes? Here you go!
- Character stats have been squished into smaller numbers that are easier to understand. It's important to understand that this is not a nerf as enemies have been squished as well.
- A new row of talents has been added for level 100, and new Draenor Perks from levels 91 to 99.
- The Garrison is a new feature available in Draenor, where you can build a base, recruit followers, and send them on missions.
- We've balanced the functionality of Agility, Strength and Intellect.
- Hit and Expertise have been removed; they're no longer needed in order to reliably land attacks!
- The pace of healing have been adjusted to allow for more tactical decisionmaking regarding efficiency and throughput, on both single-target and multi-target heals. Passive and auto-targeted healing have been reduced in effectiveness in order to emphasize the actions and choices of healers.
- Racial traits have been rebalanced so that all races have similar combat performance.
- All classes have had several abilities pruned, with a focus on redundant and less-used abilities, to cut down on button and keybind bloat.
- The amount of crowd control in the game (primarily PvP) has been drastically reduced. Many crowd-control abilities have been removed, and many diminishing returns categories are now merged together.
- Several common buffs and debuffs have been merged, or removed, where they were redundant.
- All characters now learn a few important Major Glyphs automatically as they level up.
- The amount of instant healing in the game has been toned down by giving cast times to several instant cast heals.
- Vengeance has been redesigned and renamed Resolve. Resolve does not increase outgoing damage, but does now increase tank self-healing and absorption based on damage taken.
- Facing requirements (character position) on some prominent abilities have been loosened or removed.
- The mana cost of Resurrection spells has been reduced to make it a little easier to recover from a wipe.
- Professions no longer have combat benefit perks tied to them.
- There are a multitude of class-specific changes, including things like improved distinction between different Talent specializations, and new Masteries. Consult the class-specific sections below for more information.
New Content
Level-100 Talents and Draenor Perks
A new row of talents has been added for level 100. For testing purposes, these are currently accessible at level 90.
Draenor Perks is a new feature that adds rewards for leveling. Over levels 91 to 99, you will earn these 9 new Draenor Perk in a random order. Each class and specialization has a different set of 9 Draenor Perks.
- Level-100 talents have been added for all classes!
- Draenor Perks have been added for all classes, earned from levels 91 to 99.
Garrisons
The Iron Horde army is massive and reinforcements from Azeroth are few. In order to stand a chance, you will need to build an army of your own.
- Undertake an epic quest to build a permanent base of operations on Draenor.
- Find blueprints and materials to expand and customize your Garrison.
- Recruit followers with unique skills and abilities to your cause.
- Send followers on missions to level them up and acquire bonus loot.
- Begin the quest for your Garrison in Shadowmoon Valley or Frostfire Ridge.
Game System Changes
Stat Squish
Character progression is one of the defining characteristics of a role-playing game. Naturally, that means that we're continuously adding more power to the game for players to acquire. After 4 expansions and over 9 years of this growth, we've gotten to a point where the numbers involved are no longer easy to grasp. And worse, much of the granularity that's available is tied up in tiers of older content from Molten Core to Dragon Soul, none of which are really relevant anymore. It's no longer necessary for Borean Tundra quest gear to be nearly twice as powerful as Netherstorm quest gear, even though the two zones are only a couple of levels apart.
In order to bring things down to an understandable level, we've reduced the scale of stats throughout the game, back to as if they continued scaling linearly through questing content from levels 1 to 90. This applies to creatures, spells, abilities, consumables, gear, other items... everything. Your stats and damage have been reduced by a huge amount, but so have creatures' health. For example, your
화염구 that previously hit a creature for 450,000 out of its 3,000,000 health (15% of its health), may now hit that same creature for 30,000 out of its 200,000 health (still 15% of its health). In effect, you will still be just as powerful, but the numbers that appear will be more easily parsed.
It's important to understand that this isn't a nerf, and we have special handling in place to preserve players’ existing ability to solo old content. Players will deal bonus damage against lower-level creatures from past expansions, and will take reduced damage from them.
We've also removed all base damage on player spells and abilities, and adjusted Attack Power or Spell Power scaling as needed, so that all specializations will scale at the same rate.
- The amount of stats on items has been reduced to be much lower than before.
- Creature stats have been reduced to compensate.
Primary Character Stats and Attack Power
The "primary" stats, Agility, Strength, and Intellect, are foundations of a character’s power. But they have not been created equally, making it difficult to properly balance them against secondary stats. The leading reason for this is that Agility and Intellect also provide Critical chance, in addition to Attack Power or Spell Power, whereas Strength does not. In order to achieve better balance, we've removed the Critical chance increase from Agility and Intellect. Still, it felt like Agility-based characters should critically strike more often, so we've raised those classes’ baseline Critical Strike chance to compensate.
- Agility no longer provides an increased chance to critically strike with melee and ranged attacks or abilities.
- Intellect no longer provides an increased chance to critically strike with spells.
- The base chance to critically strike is now 5% for all classes. There are no longer different chances to critically strike with melee, ranged, and spells.
- There is a new passive, named 치명타, which increases chance to critically strike by 10%.
It is learned by all 도적s, all 사냥꾼s, Feral and Guardian 드루이드s, Brewmaster and Windwalker 수도사s, and Enhancement 주술사s.
"The "primary" stats, Agility, Strength, and Intellect, are foundations of a character’s power. But they have not been created equally, making it difficult to properly balance them against secondary stats." We've consolidated the way that Attack Power and Spell Power function and scale, to make those values clearer and correct some scaling issues regarding caster weapons relative to physical weapons.
- Each point of Agility or Strength now grants 1 Attack Power (down from 2). All other sources of Attack Power now grant half as much as before.
- Weapon Damage values on all weapons have been reduced by 20%.
- Attack Power now increases Weapon Damage at a rate of 1 DPS per 3.5 Attack Power (up from 1 DPS per 14 Attack Power).
- Attack Power, Spell Power, or Weapon Damage now affect the entire healing or damage throughput of player spells.
Active mitigation has worked very well as a tanking model. So, moving forward we want to keep the amount of Dodge and Parry on tanks on the low side. This helps prevent encounters from causing very spiky damage on tanks, which generally isn't much fun. Dodge and Parry gains from Strength and Agility are being reduced to help accomplish this. Additionally, items in Warlords of Draenor will not have Dodge or Parry on them as a stat. Some Dodge and Parry can still be gained through class-specific effects.
- The amount of Dodge gained per point of Agility has been reduced by 25%.
- The amount of Parry gained per point of Strength has been reduced by 25%.
Hit and Expertise Removal
Hit and Expertise were not fun stats. They acted to remove a penalty, instead of making you stronger. Most players treated Hit/Expertise caps as mandatory (rightfully so), with failure to reach those caps as a trap of sorts. After adjusting, gemming, and reforging gear to meet that cap, players could then go after the actual damage-increasing stats. We decided to remove Hit and Expertise, and make it so you don't need them. We still want melee specializations to attack creatures from behind when possible, so non-tanking specializations will have a 3% chance to be parried that cannot be eliminated.
- General
All players now have a 100% chance to hit, 0% chance to be dodged, 3% chance to be parried, and 0% chance to glance, when fighting creatures up to 3 levels higher (bosses included).
Tank specializations receive an additional 3% reduction in chance to be parried, so tank attacks have a 0% chance to be parried vs. creatures up to 3 levels higher. - Creatures 4+ levels higher than you still have a chance to avoid your attacks in various ways, so as to discourage you from attempting to fight enemies that are much stronger than you.
- Dual Wielding still imposes a 17% chance to miss, so as to balance it with two-handed weapon use.
Hit and Expertise bonuses on all
items and item enhancements (
gems,
enchants, etc.) have been converted into Critical Strike, Haste, or Mastery.
죽음의 기사 - now also reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.
드루이드 - Balance of Power has been removed.
- Nature’s Focus no longer increases the chance to hit with Moonfire and Wrath.
- 두꺼운 가죽 now also reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.
수도사 - no longer increases Hit or Expertise.
- 시간차 now also reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.
사제 - Divine Fury has been removed.
- Spiritual Precision has been removed.
성기사 - no longer increases the chance to hit with spells.
- 성역 now also reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.
주술사 - Elemental Precision has been removed.
- no longer increases the chance to hit with , 용암 폭발, 사술, or .
전사 - 굳건한 파수대장 now also reduces the chance for attacks to be parried by 3%.
Player Health and Resilience
We’re planning several interconnected changes designed to provide better-tuned gameplay for healers and improve the healing dynamic in PvP.
The high amount of base Resilience and Battle Fatigue in Mists of Pandaria caused characters to feel much weaker in PvP than they did in PvE. To address this disparity, we’re approaching Warlords of Draenor with the goal of shrinking that gap as much as possible. To reduce dependence on Resilience, we needed to increase player survivability against other players, and we chose to do this by essentially doubling (post-squish) player health.
On its own, that increase in health would make players more survivable in the world at large, so we’re also increasing creature damage and the effectiveness of healing spells to balance things out. The net result of these changes is that individual attacks will knock a smaller chunk off of a player’s health pool in PvP, but your survivability in PvE remains unaffected.
Doubling player health gave us room to reduce Resilience and Battle Fatigue, but our goal was to be able to remove them entirely. In order to achieve that, we’re also reducing PvP spike damage across the board by lowering Critical Damage and Critical Heals against players in PvP to 150% of their normal effect (down from 200%). Our hope is that these changes allow us to reduce Base Resilience and Battle Fatigue to 0%. It’s possible that we’ll still find a need for some minor amount of Base Resilience and/or Battle Fatigue, and we’ll be testing these changes extensively and adjusting as needed.
- Base Resilience has been reduced to 0%.
- Battle Fatigue has been removed. PvP combat no longer reduces the amount of healing received by PvP participants.
- Critical Damage and Critical Heals in PvP combat now deal 150% of the normal spell/ability effects (down from 200%).
- The amount of health per Stamina has approximately doubled. The curve on this calculation has been smoothed out as well, so the exact amount varies slightly by level.
- Maximum mana has been approximately doubled at all levels to keep pace with the expected health from new Stamina values.
- All consumables have had their healing and mana regeneration values approximately doubled.
- All creatures have had their melee damage doubled. Most creature spells and abilities have had their damage doubled as well.
- All player-cast healing and absorption effects have been increased by approximately 50% in effectiveness. If they heal or absorb a percentage of maximum health, they are instead reduced by 25%. All other noted changes are in terms relative to that.
For example, if another noted change is that "Mega Heal now heals for 40% more," that means that Mega Heal now heals for a total of 210% of what it used to, which is relatively 40% higher, compared to other heals.
Retuning Healing Spells
One of our goals for healing is to tone down the raw throughput of healers relative to the size of player health pools. Currently, as healers and their allies acquire better and better gear, the percentage of a player’s health that any given heal restores increases significantly. As a result, healers are able to refill health bars so fast that we have to make damage more and more “bursty” in order to challenge them. Ideally, we want players to spend some time below full health without having healers feel like their groupmates are in danger of dying at any moment. We also think that healer gameplay would be more varied, interesting, and skillful if your allies spent more time between 0% and 100%, rather than just getting damaged quickly to low health, forcing the healer to then scramble to get them back to 100% as quickly as possible.
To that end, we’re buffing heals less than we’re increasing player health. Heals will be deliberately less potent compared to health pools than before the item squish. Additionally, as gear improves, the scaling rates of health and healing will now be very similar, so the relative power of any given healing spell shouldn’t climb so much over the course of this expansion. For those concerned about what this means for raiding, don’t worry—we’re taking all of these changes into account when designing Raid content for Warlords of Draenor.
It’s also important to note that spells that heal based on a percentage of maximum health are being effectively buffed by the massive increase to player health pools, so we’re lowering those percentages to offset the effect. That may make them appear to have been nerfed—however, the net result is that those percentage-based heals stay about the same as before relative to other heals.
All of these changes apply to damage-absorption shields as well. Additionally, we're toning down the power of damage absorption in general. When they get too strong, absorption effects are often used in place of direct healing, instead of as a way to supplement it. We will, of course, take these changes into account when tuning specializations that rely heavily on absorbs, such as Discipline
사제s. "We want healers to care about who they're targeting and which heals they're using..." We also took a look at healing spells that were passive or auto-targeted (so-called "smart" heals). We want healers to care about who they're targeting and which heals they're using,so that their decisions matter more. To that end, we're reducing the healing of many passive and auto-targeted heals, and making smart heals a little less smart. Smart heals will now randomly pick any injured target within range instead of always picking the most injured target. Priority will still be given to players over pets, of course.
Another of our goals for healing in this expansion is to strike a better balance between single-target and multi-target healing spells. We've taken a close look at the mana efficiency of our multi-target heals, and in many cases, we're reducing their efficiency, usually by reducing the amount they heal. Sometimes, but more rarely, raising their mana cost was a better decision. We want players to use multi-target heals, but they should only be better than their single-target equivalents when they heal more than two players without any overhealing. This way, players will face a meaningful choice between whether to use a single-target heal or a multi-target heal based on the situation.
Finally, we're removing the low-throughput, low-mana-cost heals like Nourish, Holy Light, Heal, and Healing Wave, because we think that while they do add complexity, they don’t truly add depth to healing gameplay. (We’re also renaming some spells to re-use those names. For example, Greater Healing Wave is being redubbed Healing Wave.) However, we still want healers to think about their mana when deciding which heal to cast, and so the mana costs and throughputs of many spells are being altered to give players a choice between spells with lower throughput and lower cost versus spells with higher throughput and higher costs. Here are some examples from each healer class.
All of this discussion of efficiency may cause most healers to start worrying about mana regeneration and their mana pool. To allay those concerns, we’ve increased base mana regeneration a great deal at early gear levels, while having it scale up less at later gear levels. This will make all of these changes play well even in early content such as Heroic Dungeons and the first tier of Raid content, and also play well in the final Raid tier without mana and efficiency becoming irrelevant due to extremely high regeneration values. "...we’ve increased base mana regeneration a great deal at early gear levels, while having it scale up less at later gear levels."
That’s a lot of big changes for healers: reduced throughput, a more deliberate pace, less powerful “smart” heals, weaker absorbs, fewer spells, and a new focus on efficiency decisions. We’re confident that we can apply lessons learned from previous expansions to make this the best healer experience yet: more dynamic, less punishing, and frankly a lot more fun.
General Changes:- Smart heals will now randomly pick any injured target within range, instead of always picking the most injured target. Priority will still be given to players over pets.
- Long-cast-time single-target heals, such as 치유 and , now cost roughly half as much as fast-cast-time single-target heals, such as 빛의 섬광 or 치유의 파도, and heal for roughly the same amount.
- Every class has multiple area healing spells available, some low throughput and efficient, others high throughput and inefficient.
- Area healing spells are tuned to be less efficient than single-target healing spells when they heal 2 or fewer targets, and more efficient when they heal 3 or more targets,
- Spells with cooldowns or limitations may have higher efficiency than the no-cooldown equivalents.
Racial Traits
We want races to have fun and interesting perks, but if those traits are too powerful, players may feel compelled to play a specific race even if it doesn't suit their aesthetic preference. For example, Trolls' Berserking ability was extremely powerful, and their Beast Slaying passive was often irrelevant, but occasionally tremendously powerful compared to other racial passives. On the other end of the spectrum, many races had few or no performance affecting perks. We also needed to replace or update a number of racials that previously granted Hit or Expertise, since those stats have been removed.
We decided to bring down the couple high outliers, then establish a fair baseline and bring everyone else up to that. We achieved that by improving old passives, replacing obsolete ones, and occasionally adding new ones where needed. Our goal with these changes is to reach parity amongst races.
- Blood Elf
비전 지각 is a new racial passive ability that increases Critical Strike chance by 1%. - Arcane Torrent now restores 20 Runic Power for 죽음의 기사s (up from 15 Runic Power), 1 Holy Power for 성기사s, or 3% of mana for Mages, 사제s, and 흑마법사s (up from 2% of Mana). Other parts of the ability remain unchanged.
Draenei - 용맹의 기운 has been redesigned. It no longer increases Hit by 1%, and instead increases Strength, Agility, and Intellect, scaling with character level.
- 나루의 선물 now heals for the same amount over 5 seconds (down from 15 seconds).
Dwarf - Crack Shot has been removed (was 1% Expertise with ranged weapons).
- Mace Specialization (was 1% Expertise with maces) has been replaced with 산의 강대함.
- 산의 강대함 is a new racial passive ability that increases Critical Strike bonus damage and healing dealt by 2%.
- 석화 now also removes magic and curse effects in addition to poison, disease, and bleed effects, along with reducing damage taken by 10% for 8 seconds. It remains unusable while the Dwarf is under the effects of crowd control.
Gnome - 영리함 now increases maximum mana, energy, rage, and Runic Power by 5% instead of only increasing maximum mana.
- 탈출의 명수’s cooldown has been reduced to 1 minute (down from 1.5 minutes).
- Shortblade Specialization (was 1% Expertise with one-handed swords and daggers) has been replaced with 날렵한 손가락.
- 날렵한 손가락 is a new racial passive ability that increases Haste by 1%.
Goblin - 시간은 금 now grants a 1% increase to Haste (up from only attack speed and spell haste).
Human - Mace Specialization has been removed (was 1% Expertise with maces).
- Sword Specialization has been removed (was 1% Expertise with swords).
- 인간의 정신력 has been redesigned. It no longer increases Spirit by 3%, and instead now increases 2 secondary stats by an amount scaling with character level. You can choose which 2 secondary stats it increases. This has not yet been implemented.
Night Elf - 민첩성 now also increases movement speed by 2% in addition to increasing Dodge chance by 2%.
- 엘룬의 손길 is a new passive ability which increases Haste by 1% at night, and Critical Strike chance by 1% during the day.
Orc - Axe Specialization has been removed (was 1% Expertise with axes).
- Command now increases pet damage by 1% (down from 2%).
- 강인함 now reduces the duration of Stun effects by 10% (down from 15%).
Tauren - 우직함 is a new racial passive ability that increases Critical Strike bonus damage and healing done by 2%.
- 인내력 now increases Stamina by an amount scaling with character level, instead of increasing Base Health by 5%.
Troll - 광폭화 now increases Haste by 15% (down from 20%).
- 야수 사냥 전문화 now increases XP earned from killing Beasts by 20%, instead of increasing damage dealt versus Beasts by 5%.
- Dead Eye has been removed (was 1% Expertise with ranged weapons).
Undead - 포세이큰의 의지’s cooldown has been increased to 3 minutes (up from 2 minutes).
- Undead can now breath underwater indefinitely.
Ability Pruning
Over the years, we've added significantly more new spells and abilities to the game than we've removed. This has led to the complexity of the game increasing steadily over time, to the point we're at now, where players feel like they need dozens of keybinds. There are many niche abilities which could theoretically be useful in some rare case, but usually are not. There are many abilities that we'd be better off not having. We decided that we needed to make a strong push for paring down the number of abilities each class/spec has. That means making some abilities restricted to certain specs that really need them instead of being class-wide, and outright removing some other abilities. It also includes removing some Spellbook clutter, such as passives that could be merged with others, or with base abilities.
However, this doesn't mean that we want to reduce the depth of gameplay, or "dumb it down.” We still want there to be interesting decisions during combat, and for skill to matter. But, that doesn't require complexity; we can remove some needless complexity and still retain the depth and skill variance.
One type of ability that we focused on is temporary power buffs ("cooldowns"). Removing those also helps achieve one of our other goals, which is to reduce the amount of cooldown stacking in the game. In cases where a class/spec had multiple cooldowns that typically ended up getting used together, often in a single macro, we merged them, or removed some of them.
What abilities and spells got cut is a very,
very difficult question to answer. Every ability is vital to someone, so we don't take this process lightly. We hope that even if we cut your favorite ability, you can see it in the context of our larger goals. It's important to remember that the point of these changes is to increase players' ability to understand the game, not to reduce depth of gameplay.
- General
The levels at which you learn class abilities have been revised to provide a smoother leveling flow.
죽음의 기사 - 사자의 군대 now deals 75% less damage and is only available to Blood 죽음의 기사s.
- 쌍수 무기 is now only available to Frost 죽음의 기사s.
- 겨울의 뿔피리 no longer generates Runic Power, has no cooldown, and lasts 1 hour.
- 괴저 일격 is now learned only by Frost and Unholy 죽음의 기사s.
- 시체 되살리기 is now only available to Unholy 죽음의 기사s, summons a ghoul as a permanent pet, and has a 1-minute cooldown.
- Master of Ghouls has been removed.
- now replaces Death Coil for Blood 죽음의 기사s.
- 냉기의 일격 now replaces Death Coil for Frost 죽음의 기사s.
- 절멸 now replaces Blood Strike for Frost 죽음의 기사s.
- Unholy Frenzy has been removed.
드루이드 - Enrage has been removed.
- Innervate has been removed. Mana costs for 드루이드s have been adjusted accordingly.
- Mangle (Cat Form) has been removed. 짓이기기 (Bear Form) remains unchanged.
- Nourish has been removed.
- 칼날 발톱 is now available to all 드루이드s.
- Swipe (Bear Form) has been removed. 휘둘러치기 (Cat Form) remains unchanged.
- Symbiosis has been removed.
사냥꾼 - is no longer available to Marksmanship 사냥꾼s.
now also reduces the cost of 조준 사격 when active, to preserve its value to Marksmanship 사냥꾼s.
Aspect of the Hawk has been removed.
- Aspect of the Iron Hawk has been renamed to 강철매, and now passively provides 10% damage reduction.
Cower has been removed as a pet ability.
Distracting Shot has been removed.
Hunter’s Mark has been removed.
마무리 사격 is no longer available to Survival
사냥꾼s.
Lock and Load has been removed.
now naturally has a chance to cause the Lock and Load effect.
- 쇄도 is now a level-75 talent, replacing Lynx Rush.
Lynx Rush has been removed.
Rabid has been removed as a pet ability.
Rapid Fire has been removed.
Rapid Recuperation has been removed.
Serpent Sting and Improved Serpent Sting have been removed.
- Serpent Spread has been renamed 독사 쐐기, and remains a passive for Survival 사냥꾼s. It causes 일제 사격 and to also apply the Serpent Sting poison, which does instant and periodic damage.
Widow Venom has been removed.
Revive Pet and Mend Pet now share one button, which toggles based on whether you have a live pet.
마법사 - 비전 탄막 now replaces Fire Blast for Arcane Mages.
- 비전 작렬 now replaces Frostfire Bolt for Arcane Mages.
- 신비한 폭발 is now available only to Arcane Mages.
- is now available only to Frost Mages.
- now replaces Deep Freeze for Fire Mages.
- is now available only to Frost Mages.
- 용의 숨결 now replaces Cone of Cold for Fire Mages.
- 환기 is now available only to Arcane Mages.
- 불기둥 is now available only to Fire Mages.
- Pyromaniac has been removed.
- is now available only to Frost Mages and is now a passive effect.
- 얼음창 now replaces Fire Blast and is only available to Frost Mages.
- is now available only to Arcane Mages and is now a passive effect.
- Mana Gem has been removed.
- is now available only to Fire Mages and is now a passive effect.
- 산산조각 is now available only to Frost Mages.
수도사 - Avert Harm has been removed.
- Clash has been removed.
- Adaptation has been removed.
- Power Guard has been removed.
- 결박 is now available only to Windwalker 수도사s.
- Healing Sphere (the spell, not any other sources of healing spheres) has been removed. Mistweavers' 특화: 안개 돌풍, Brewmasters' 소의 선물, and Windwalkers' 내세 still summon healing spheres.
- is now available to all 수도사 specializations. It costs 30 Energy in Ox or Tiger Stance, and continues to cost mana in and . However, it only generates Chi for Mistweaver 수도사s.
- now replaces 맹호지세 for Mistweaver 수도사s (see 수도사s below for details).
- 시간차 now replaces 맹호지세 for Brewmaster 수도사s.
성기사 - 응징의 격노 is now only available to Retribution 성기사s.
- 오라 숙련 is no longer available to Protection 성기사s.
- Divine Light has been renamed 성스러운 빛
- Divine Plea has been removed. Mana costs for 성기사s have been adjusted accordingly.
- 고대 왕의 수호자 is now only available to Protection 성기사s.
- Hand of Salvation has been removed.
- Holy Light has been removed.
- Inquisition has been removed.
사제 - 결속의 치유 is no longer available to Shadow 사제s.
- Hymn of Hope has been removed.
- Heal has been removed.
- Greater Heal has been renamed 치유.
- no longer provides any mana cost reduction.
- Rapture has been removed.
- 소생 is now available only to Holy 사제s.
- 어둠의 권능: 죽음 is now available only to Shadow 사제s.
- Void Shift has been removed.
- Inner Fire has been removed.
- Inner Will has been removed.
도적 - Disarm Trap has been removed.
- 파열 is no longer available to Combat 도적s.
- Shadow Blades has been removed.
주술사 - Ancestral Awakening has been removed.
- 야수 정령 no longer has the Spirit Bite ability.
- is no longer available to Restoration 주술사.
- is now available only to Enhancement 주술사.
- Greater Healing Wave has been renamed to 치유의 물결.
- 치유의 해일 토템 is now available only to Restoration 주술사.
- Healing Wave has been removed.
- 용암 폭발 now replaces Primal Strike for Elemental and Restoration 주술사.
- 용암 토템 is now available only to Enhancement 주술사.
- Rockbiter Weapon has been removed.
- Static Shock has been removed.
폭풍의 일격 and 번개폭풍 now deal 30% more damage when is active.
Stormlash Totem has been removed.
Searing Flames has been removed.
- damage has been increased by 40%, and 용암 채찍 damage has been increased to 280% weapon damage (up from 140%) to compensate.
물의 보호막 is now available only to Restoration
주술사 and replaces
.
흑마법사 - All of the various Soulburn effects are learned together with Soulburn, instead of at different levels.
- and 혼돈의 낙인 now affect all enemies within 10 yards of the target.
Metamorphosis: Cursed Auras has been removed. - and 혼돈의 낙인 no longer gain a benefit from Soulburn.
- no longer applies to Curses.
no longer gains a benefit from Soul Burn.
Drain Soul has been removed.
Fel Flame has been removed.
생명력 집중 no longer gains a benefit from Soul Burn.
Metamorphosis: Void Ray has been removed.
Metamorphosis: Carrion Swarm has been removed.
Pyroclasm has been removed. The altered behavior it granted for Chaos Bolt is now baseline to Backdraft.
부패의 씨앗 now replaces Rain of Fire for Affliction
흑마법사s.
Soulshatter has been removed.
영원의 숨결 no longer gains a benefit from Soul Burn.
전사 - 전투의 외침 now lasts 1 hour and no longer generates Rage.
- 광전사의 격노 no longer generates Rage or increases Physical damage dealt.
- Berserker Stance has been removed.
- Cleave has been removed.
- now lasts 1 hour and no longer generates Rage.
- Demoralizing Banner has been removed.
- 무력화 is now a passive ability that causes 필사의 일격, 피의 갈증, 복수, and 분노의 강타 to also reduce the target’s movement speed by 50% for 15 seconds.
- 재집결의 함성 is no longer available to Protection 전사s.
- 무모한 희생 is now available only to Fury and Arms 전사s.
- Skull Banner has been removed.
- Throw has been removed.
- 천둥벼락 is no longer available to Fury 전사s.
- 소용돌이 is now available only to Fury 전사s.
Crowd Control and Diminishing Returns
Another big takeaway from Mists of Pandaria is that there was simply too much crowd control (CC) in the game. To solve that, we knew that we needed an across-the-board disarmament. Here's a summary of the player-cast CC changes:
- Removed Silence effects from Interrupts. Silences still exist, but are never attached to an Interrupt.
- Removed all Disarms.
- Reduced the number of Diminishing Returns (DR) categories.
All Roots now share the same DR category.
Exception: Roots on 'Charge' types of abilities have no DR category, but have a very short duration instead.
All Stuns now share the same DR category.
All Incapacitate ("Mesmerize") effects now share the same DR category, and have been merged with the Horror DR category.
Removed the ability to make cast-time CC spells instant with a cooldown.
Removed many CC spells entirely, and increased the cooldowns and restrictions on others.
- Pet-cast CC is more limited and often removed.
- Cyclone can now be dispelled by Immunities and 대규모 무효화.
- PvP trinkets now grant immunity to reapplication of an effect from the same spell cast, when they break abilities with persistent effects like 태양 광선.
- Long fears are now shorter in PvP, to account for the target also needing to run back afterward.
Additionally, we've significantly reduced the number of throughput-increasing cooldowns and procs, in order to further reduce burst damage. Please keep in mind when reading the specifics of the patch notes that some classes may have lost abilities, or had the power of select abilities reduced. These changes were made in the context of the above goals. Other classes have a reduced crowd-control ability overall. We believe that this entire package of changes will make PvP a more enjoyable experience for everyone.
- 드루이드
Cyclone can now be canceled by immunity effects (i.e. 천상의 보호막, 얼음 방패, etc.), and can be dispelled by 대규모 무효화. - Disorienting Roar’s effect now shares Diminishing Returns with other Mesmerize effects.
- Nature’s Swiftness can no longer turn Cyclone into an instant-cast spell.
- 태양 광선 no longer Silences a target again more than once per cast. Additionally, the Silence effect from this spell now shares Diminishing Returns with other Silences.
사냥꾼 - 사냥꾼 pets no longer have crowd-control abilities.
Basilisk: Petrifying Gaze; Bat: Sonic Blast; Bird of Prey: Snatch; Crab: Pin; Crane: Lullaby; Crocolisk: Ankle Crack; Dog: Lock Jaw; Gorilla: Pummel; Monkey: Bad Manners; Moth: Serenity Dust; Nether Ray: Nether Shock; Porcupine: Paralyzing Quill; Rhino: Horn Toss; Scorpid: Clench; Shale Spider: Web Wrap; Silithid: Venom Web Spray; Spider: Web; and Wasp: Sting have been removed as pet abilities.
올가미’s Root effect now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Root effects.
Scatter Shot has been removed.
Silencing Shot has been removed.
Traps and trap launchers no longer have an arming time and can instantly trigger.
Traps can no longer be disarmed.
야수 겁주기 now has a 6 sec duration in PvP (down from 8 sec).
마법사 - 용의 숨결's Disoriented effect now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- ’s Frozen effect now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Root effects.
- Improved Counterspell has been removed.
- can no longer turn Polymorph into an instant-cast spell.
수도사 - 분노의 주먹 no longer stuns a target more than once per cast.
- ’s Disoriented effect now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- Grapple Weapon has been removed.
- 평화의 고리 no longer Silences or Disarms enemies. It now incapacitates targets in the area for 3 seconds, or until the target takes damage. The ability now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- 손날 찌르기 no longer Silences the target if they’re facing the 수도사.
- ’s Root effect now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Root effects.
성기사 - Blinding Light has been removed.
- 참회's cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds.
- 악령 퇴치's cast time has been increased to 1.8 seconds and now has a 6 second duration in PvP (down from 8 seconds).
사제 - 정신 지배 now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- 빛의 권능: 응징 now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- 정신적 두려움 now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- 영혼의 절규 is now a level-15 talent, replacing Psyfiend, and has a 45-second cooldown (up from 30 seconds).
- Rapture no longer has any effect beyond removing the cooldown of Power Word: Shield.
- 공허의 촉수’ Root effect now has a chance to break if the target takes sufficient damage.
도적 - Dismantle has been removed.
- Paralytic Poison has been removed and replaced by 내출혈.
내출혈: Causes successful 급소 가격s to also apply a periodic Bleed effect for 12 seconds, with damage increasing per combo point used.
주술사 - can no longer turn 사술 into an instant-cast spell.
- 구속의 토템 now shares Diminishing Returns with all other root effects.
- can no longer reduce the cast time of 사술.
- Bug Fix: should no longer cause to incorrectly dispel 불안정한 고통 or 흡혈의 손길 that has been modified by the PvP 4-piece set bonus.
- 흑마법사
’s cooldown has been increased to 60 seconds (up from 30 seconds) and now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects. - Felhunter: 주문 잠금 now only interrupts spell casting and no longer Silences the enemy.
- 필멸의 고리 now shares Diminishing Returns with all other Mesmerize effects.
- Observer: 안구 광선 now only deals damage and interrupts spell casting. The ability no longer Silences the enemy.
- 마법 불태우기’s cooldown has been increased to 30 seconds (up from 20 seconds).
- Succubus: 유혹 and Shivarra: 최면 now have a 30-second cooldown.
- Terrorguard no longer casts Terrifying Roar when it dies.
- ’s cooldown has been increased to 2 minutes (up from 1 minute).
- Voidwalker: Disarm and Voidlord: Disarm have been removed.
전사 - 돌진 now Roots the target (instead of stunning). The Root effect does not share a Diminishing Return with other Roots.
- 전쟁인도자 now causes 돌진 to stun the target for 1.5 sec instead of rooting it.
- Disarm has been removed.
- 위협의 외침 now has a 6 sec duration in PvP (down from 8 sec).
Buffs and Debuffs
All specializations provide some common buffs and debuffs. These are important to the game because they encourage cooperation, make you stronger when you work together with others, and promote Raid composition diversity. However, we saw room to revise these buffs and debuffs. We also spread around some of the harder-to-find Raid buffs/debuffs, especially for specializations that brought relatively few.
Weakened Armor and
were effectively redundant, both filling the role of increasing Physical damage taken by the target. So, we removed Weakened Armor and widened the availability of
a bit.
- Weakened Armor
The following abilities no longer apply the Weakened Blows effect.
드루이드: now applies , increasing Physical damage taken by 4% for 30 seconds. - 전사 (Protection): 압도
The following abilities have been removed.
- 사냥꾼 Pets: Tallstrider: Dust Cloud, Raptor: Tear Armor
- 도적: Expose Armor
- 전사: Sunder Armor
Weakened Blows was a debuff that mattered almost exclusively to tanks, and that every tank automatically applied. We removed the debuff and reduced creature damage to compensate.
The following abilities have been removed.
- 사냥꾼 Pets, 곰: Demoralizing Roar; 독수리: Demoralizing Screech
The Cast Speed Slow was a debuff type that mattered almost exclusively to PvP, and made combat much less fun for casters in addition to encouraging the use of instant-cast spells. We decided that it was best to remove casting speed debuffs.
- Cast Speed Slows
The following abilities no longer slow the target’s casting speed by 50%.
죽음의 기사: Necrotic Strike - Mage (Arcane): Slow
- Additionally, Slow can now affect more than one target at a time.
The following abilities have been removed.
- 사냥꾼 Pets, 심장부 사냥개: Lava Breath; 여우: Tailspin; 거친뿔: Trample; 포자박쥐: Spore Cloud
- 도적: Mind-numbing Poison
- 흑마법사: Curse of Enfeeblement
As part of a push to combine the different types of Haste in the game as much as possible, we merged Spell Haste and Attack Speed into just Haste, which benefits everyone.
- Spell Haste and Attack Speed
The following abilities now provide a 5% increase to melee, ranged, and spell Haste to all Party and Raid members (previously they only increased spell Haste).
드루이드 (Balance): 달빛야수 변신 - 사냥꾼 Pet (Sporebat):
- 사제 (Shadow):
- 주술사 (Elemental):
The following abilities now provide a 5% increase to melee, ranged, and spell Haste to all Party and Raid members (instead of a 10% increase to only melee and ranged attack speed).
The following
사냥꾼 pet abilities have been removed.
- 하이에나: Cackling Howl; 뱀: Serpent's Swiftness
Other - Blood 죽음의 기사s receive a new passive ability at level 80 called .
grants a bonus to Mastery to all Party and Raid members.
Brewmaster
수도사s now also learn
, granting 5% increased Critical Strike chance to all Party and Raid members.
The following abilities now also increase magic damage taken by the target by 5% for 15 seconds.
Instant Cast Heals
Over time, healers have gained a bigger and bigger arsenal of heals that they can cast while on the move, which removes the inherent cost that movement is intended to have for them, while also limiting players’ ability to counter healing in PvP. This left Silences and crowd control (which we’re trying to curb—see "Pruning the Garden of War") as the only ways to actually limit an enemy player's healing output. We're still preserving the option to instantly heal, but are reducing the number of instant-cast healing abilities overall. Raid and dungeon encounter damage during high-movement phases will be adjusted accordingly. Here are some examples:
- 드루이드
급속 성장 (Restoration) now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
수도사 - 생기 충전 (Mistweaver) now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
성기사 - now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast) for Holy 성기사s.
- 여명의 빛 now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
- 영광의 서약 now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
- (Protection) now also makes 영광의 서약 and instant cast.
- (Retribution) now also makes 영광의 서약 and instant cast.
사제 - 회복의 기원 now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
- now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
- 천상의 별 now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
- 후광 now has a 1.5-second cast time (up from instant cast).
Tank Vengeance and Resolve
The changes to tanking made in Mists of Pandaria turned out quite well, overall. But there were a few rough parts that we're going to smooth over. The biggest one is the offensive capabilities of Vengeance. We like that tanks can provide meaningful DPS to their group, however, it swung wildly based on the fight, even surpassing the dedicated damage dealers occasionally. To solve this, we're going to remove the offensive value of Vengeance, but preserve the defensive value, by making it increase the effect of your active mitigation buttons, instead of Attack Power.
- General
Vengeance has been removed and replaced with a new passive ability, .
: Increases your healing and absorption done to yourself, based on Stamina and damage taken (before avoidance and mitigation) in the last 10 seconds.
Then, to keep tank DPS meaningful, we'll be raising their damage, since it would be meager with no Vengeance Attack Power (Vengeance accounted for 70-90% of a tank's damage on high-tank-damage fights in Mists). To do that, we're increasing the damage of several prominent tank abilities, as well as having tanks also gain increased Attack Power from Mastery, in addition to the stat’s existing benefits. That also helps keep secondary stats balanced in offensive value for them.
- 죽음의 기사
특화: 피의 보호막 now also passively increases Attack Power by 12% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
드루이드 - 특화: 자연의 수호자 now also passively increases Attack Power by 12% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
수도사 - 특화: 교묘한 투사 now also passively increases Attack Power by 12% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
- Brewmasters no longer deal 15% less damage.
성기사 - 특화: 천상의 보루 now also passively increases Attack Power by 12% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
전사 - 특화: 결정적 방어 now also passively increases Attack Power by 12% (percentage increased by Mastery), in addition to its current effects.
Quality of Life Improvements
Facing Requirements
Strict facing requirements can be frustrating to deal with, especially in hectic Raid combat or PvP environments. In order to ease this frustration, we decided to remove or significantly loosen the facing requirements of all attacks that required the player to be behind their target.
- 드루이드: 칼날 발톱 no longer requires the 드루이드 to be behind the target.
- 도적: 매복 no longer requires the 도적 to be behind the target.
- 도적 (Subtlety): 기습 can now be used on either side of the target, in addition to behind the target.
Resurrection Mana Costs
We reduced the mana cost of all resurrection spells to 4% of base mana, so that mana isn't an inhibitor on the Raid or Party's ability to recover from a wipe. Cast time already functions as the primary cost of these spells. Note that
사제s' Resurrection spell was already at 4% of base mana, so it remains unchanged.
Automatically Learned Glyphs
While leveling, characters unlock Glyph slots at several specific levels. However, in order to get glyphs, characters need to visit an Auction House (and potentially pay way more gold than an average character of that level has yet), or know a Scribe from which to request them. To solve this, we've made characters learn some Glyphs automatically as they level.
- All classes now learn some of their Major Glyphs as they level. Recipes for these Glyphs have been removed.
At level 25, Glyph of the following Glyphs are automatically learned by characters of the appropriate class:
, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
At level 50, the following Glyphs are automatically learned by characters of the appropriate class:
- , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 공포,
At level 60, the following Glyphs are automatically learned by characters of the appropriate class:
At level 75, the following Glyphs are automatically learned by characters of the appropriate class:
- , , , , , Glyph of Misdirection, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Professions
Some of our goals with Professions in Warlords of Draenor are to make them more of a personal choice, and less of a mandatory “min/max” selection. To that end, we're removing the direct combat benefits of Professions. Additionally, we've made it easier to level Mining and Herbalism. Healing Potions have gone mostly unused lately, compared to combat stat potions. We chose to solve that problem, along with a problem with
흑마법사 utility, by having Healing Potions and Healthstones share cooldowns.
- Herbalists can now harvest herbs throughout the game world without hard skill requirements. The yield an Herbalist will be able to harvest from each node is now determined by skill level.
- Miners can now harvest mineral nodes in outdoor areas of the game world without hard skill requirements. The yield a Miner will be able to harvest from each node is now determined by skill level.
- Healing Potions no longer share a cooldown with other potions, but instead share a 60-second cooldown with Healthstones. The cooldown will not reset until the player leaves combat.
Class Changes
A few things have happened for
죽음의 기사s. As described above in Ability Pruning, several cooldowns were made spec-specific. Rotations remain unchanged for the most part. One thing we did polish up is the effect of Diseases on the damage of other abilities. Diseases now do enough damage on their own to warrant using them, so having them act as multipliers on the damage of other abilities was extraneous, and just cluttered up the tooltips of those abilities. We removed those multipliers, and just baked in their benefit to the corresponding base spell. This slightly reduces ramp-up time.
- damage has been increased by 50%, but no longer deals additional damage to targets affected by 피의 역병 or 서리 열병.
- damage has been increased by 30%, but no longer deals additional damage for each disease present on the target.
- 절멸 now deals 25% more damage on both main- and off-hand weapons, but no longer deals additional damage for each disease present on the target.
- 스컬지의 일격 no longer deals additional damage for each disease present on the target. The ability now deals 50% of the Physical damage dealt as additional Shadow damage; this effect can critically hit and no longer ignores modifiers.
In order to better balance the scaling rates and value of secondary stats for Unholy
죽음의 기사s, we reduced the power of their passive
부정의 힘 ability.
- 부정의 힘 (Unholy) bonus changed from +35% to +10%.
Active Mitigation was a very successful design that was inspired by
죽음의 기사s' tanking style. However, it went beyond that, and
죽음의 기사s themselves were somewhat left behind in that regard. We made several changes to bring up the interactivity of Blood combat. This includes making
죽음의 일격 cause healing based on attack power, but be affected by the new Resolve passive (see Tank Vengeance and Resolve, above), which gives it the traditional increase from recent damage. Plus,
is being significantly improved, to become a strong Active Mitigation button. To tie those together, Blood's Mastery is being changed to affect both the size of the Blood Shield absorb, and the new Rune Shield absorb. Additionally, we removed Dodge and Parry from gear, and expect Blood
죽음의 기사s to value Haste and Crit as important secondary stats. In order to achieve that, we made Riposte give defensive value to auto attack and Rune Strike crits. Finally, we tweaked the targeting AI of
춤추는 룬 무기, and fixed it up to use most Talents that you know.
- now only cleaves 1 additional target (down from 2).
- 죽음의 일격 now causes healing that scales in effectiveness with attack power, instead of based on damage taken in the last 5 sec. This healing is affected by Resolve.
- now causes 죽음의 일격 to also cause an absorb for 50% of the amount healed.
- now grants an absorption shield that scales in effectiveness with Attack Power, instead of a heal based on a % of maximum health. It also now has 2 charges, with a 30-second recharge time.
now grants an immediate charge, and makes your next free. However, its damage reduction buff now only lasts 4 sec (down from 8sec).
특화: 피의 보호막 now increases the effectiveness of Blood Shield and Rune Shield by 16% (percentage increased by mastery), instead of adding the Blood Shield effect.
has been redesigned.
- : After getting a Critical Strike with an Auto Attack or Rune Strike, you gain +100% Parry chance until you Parry an attack. This can stack up to 2 times.
춤추는 룬 무기’s summoned Rune Weapon now remains fixated on the
죽음의 기사’s target at the time of summoning, and copies the effects of Talents that are tied to the
죽음의 기사, such as
,
서리 열병, or
어둠의 질식. Should the original target be dead or otherwise unavailable, the Rune Weapon will switch to assist with the
죽음의 기사’s current target.
Since the Ghoul pet is now Unholy only, that presents a problem for
죽음의 서약. We revised
죽음의 서약 to not require an undead minion, but work a little differently. We left it at 50% heal, which is effectively a 33% buff to it from before (see Healing and Player Health above), and added a heal absorb for half the amount healed, instead. It should now be a relatively more effective heal for staying alive immediately, but with the downside of needing to heal through the heal absorb before you can be healed any further.
- 죽음의 서약 no longer requires an undead minion, and instead places a heal absorb on you for 50% of the amount healed.
There were also a few other miscellaneous changes. The Runic Power generation of
대마법 보호막 was standardized, to make it more understandable, and balanced.
- 대마법 보호막 now restores 2 Runic Power per 1% of max health absorbed.
드루이드s have seen a few significant changes. The loss of Symbiosis (see Ability Pruning above) will primarily impact
드루이드s’ survival, as many of the abilities received through Symbiosis were defensive cooldowns. To compensate for that change, we buffed
생존 본능 significantly and the ability is now available for all specializations.
- 생존 본능 is now available to all 드루이드 specializations. Survival Instincts now reduces damage taken by 70% (up from 50%) with a 2-minute cooldown (down from 3), and for Feral and Guardian specializations can have up to 2 charges (up from 1).
Guardian
드루이드s have had increased Armor as their Mastery for a while now. However, one of the new secondary stats available to all tanks is Bonus Armor. We didn't feel that the difference of being additive vs. being a multiplier was significant enough to warrant keeping their Mastery around. Additionally, active mitigation hasn't played out as well for Guardians as it has for some other tanks. We decided to redesign the Mastery for Guardian
드루이드s to something that compliments the Avoidance-heavy nature of
, and also to improve the usability of
맹위 for more consistent damage reduction. Note that Primal Tenacity's calculation uses the damage before any other absorbs you have, and before
맹위's effects, so that it isn’t negatively affected by any of those. We also slightly reduced the power of
, in order to better balance secondary stats for Guardians.
- Guardian 드루이드s' Mastery (Nature’s Guardian) has been replaced with a new 특화: 자연의 수호자.
특화: 자연의 수호자 causes the 드루이드 to gain a Physical absorb shield equal to 16% of the attack’s damage when they are hit by a Physical attack. Attacks which this effect fully or partially absorbs cannot trigger Primal Tenacity.
Rage for Guardian
드루이드s has been problematic throughout Mists of Pandaria. Most of their rage generation was extremely passive, and most of their button presses either didn't affect their survivability, or only trivially did so. We made changes to Haste and Crit, to try to solve these rage generation problems, and improve their rotation. Most
- Auto-attacks now generate 5 Rage (down from 10.9 Rage).
- now generates 10 Rage, has no cooldown (down from a 3-second cooldown), but no longer has a chance to reset Mangle's cooldown.
- Thrash now generates 2 Rage every time it deals direct or periodic damage, has no cooldown (down from a 6-second cooldown), but no longer has a chance to reset Mangle's cooldown.
- no longer has a chance to reset Mangle's cooldown.
- now generates 5 Rage (down from 15 Rage) when you dodge or non-periodically critically strike (up from only Auto Attacks and Mangle).
- Mangle now generates 30 Rage, and its cooldown is reduced by Haste.
- 곰 변신 no longer increases Haste and Crit from items by 50%, but instead causes Haste to reduce the global cooldown.
Feral
드루이드s received a few tweaks beyond what's been mentioned above in Ability Pruning and Facing Requirements.
was buffed significantly, in order to bring it up to par with
. Primal Fury was changed to let it affect area attacks as well.
was reworked to better achieve its intended effect.
- 's damage has been increased by 100%.
- Primal Fury now also grants a combo point for area attacks that critically strike the 드루이드's primary target.
- now grants a free 5 combo point 야생의 포효 when leaving Prowl, instead of allowing 야생의 포효 to be used with 0 combo points.
평온 has an amazingly strong effect (pour a ton of healing into the whole Raid/Party), but had excessive complexity for a relatively simple task (5 different targets per tick, a short HoT, stacking, varied strength by raid size). So, we simplified it significantly. It still will be used just as it always has been.
- 평온 now heals every Party and Raid member within range every 2 seconds for 8 seconds. It no longer places a periodic effect on each target. The total amount of healing it generates in Raids should be approximately the same as before this change.
Restoration
드루이드s got a few changes as well. In Patch 5.4, a Glyph was introduced where you could choose to attach your Efflorescence to Wild Mushroom, instead of to
신속한 치유. That was a rousing success, taken by nearly all Restoration
드루이드s, and felt like a much better situation to us, so we decided to remove the glyph choice, and bake it in permanently. Secondly, while we are fine with the playstyle where a Restoration
드루이드 blankets their Raid in
회복s, the Swift Rejuvenation passive made that too strong, and also limited their scaling with Haste. We removed that passive, to encourage using other spells more, but still allow
회복 blanketing as a playstyle choice.
- Swift 회복 has been removed.
- 신속한 치유 no longer causes Efflorescence. Instead, 꽃피우기 now causes Efflorescence to appear at the mushroom’s location.
The level 90-Talent row for
드루이드s was designed to encourage hybrid gameplay. We decided that, while you shouldn't have to give up a significant amount of your primary role throughput in order to gain the off-role benefit, you also don't need to gain an actual benefit to your primary role throughput benefit either. We've reduced the power of their primary role benefit, making them roughly neutral in their effect on your primary role. Note that the increase to off-role healing from
자연의 경계 is not actually a buff (see Healing and Player Health above).
- Heart of the Wild no longer provides an increase to Hit chance or Expertise while active, and no longer increases Stamina, Agility, and Intellect.
- Dream of Cenarius
Balance: Casting no longer increases the damage bonus of the 드루이드’s next Eclipse. Eclipse now causes the 드루이드’s next to become instant cast and reset the cooldown on Starsurge. - Feral: Casting no longer increases the damage of the 드루이드’s next 2 melee abilities, or increases the healing of 회복.
- Guardian: No longer increases the critical strike chance of Mangle.
자연의 경계, while active, increases single-target damage and healing caused by healing spells by 16% (down from 25%), and all single-target damage spells also heal a nearby friendly target for 35% of the damage done (up from 25%).
사냥꾼s have lacked a strong distinction between the different specializations. What we mean by that is that the
사냥꾼 specializations all had rotations that felt similar, with Marksmanship and Survival having the most blurred identities (Beast Mastery felt well rooted in the pet).
사냥꾼s were also some of the most afflicted by button bloat. To address these problems, we opted to make changes to each specialization's rotation, primarily through removing abilities, and making some of them unique to each spec. This means things like
조준 사격 being the primary Focus dump for Marksmanship, instead of
or Serpent Sting being available only to Survival.
사냥꾼s also had a large number of cooldown abilities, which we've also cut down (some of which we moved to the talent tree, competing with other active buttons). For a full list of what was removed, please see Ability Pruning and PvP - Crowd Control and Diminishing Returns.
One of the most difficult abilities to decide to cut was Aspect of the Hawk. It began to feel fairly meaningless, since it was used virtually all of the time in combat, so might as well have just been passive. We decided to cut Aspect of the Hawk, and bake in its benefit to the other abilities. The remaining aspect abilities are all utility only, and are being moved off the stance bar and made toggles.
Overall,
사냥꾼s should see a drastic reduction in the number of active buttons, and have a clearer distinction between the different specializations. With some of these changes, you may find yourself favoring a different specialization. Keep in mind that Draenor Perks, earned from levels 91 to 99, will serve to further distinguish the different specializations.
- Aspect of the Pack no longer appears on the stance bar and is now on the global cooldown.
- no longer appears on the stance bar and is now on the global cooldown.
- : The ability taught by this Glyph no longer appears on the stance bar and is now on the global cooldown.
- : No longer triggers any cooldown on Aspects.
There were also a few other changes, primarily for quality of life and rotational consistency.
- 조준 사격 now deals 20% more damage and no longer interrupts Auto Attacks.
- 야수 소환 해제 now ignores line of sight.
- 사냥꾼 Pets now have a 1 second global cooldown.
- ’s periodic effect now has a chance each time it deals damage to cause the next 2 Explosive Shots to cost no Focus and not trigger a cooldown. This effect is guaranteed to activate at least once.
- 폭발 덫 now places a periodic-damage effect on each target within the radius of the explosion, rather than a persistent effect on the ground.
Mage
The Mage class has good specialization distinction when it comes to their single-target rotations, but utility and area-of-effect spells were heavily shared between specializations. Commonly, these spells were redundant as well. We made many of their spells specialization-specific (as described in Ability Pruning above). And probably most significant, we made changes to several existing Talents.
was extremely strong for instant CC, which we wanted to curtail. Rather than completely remove
or make it not affect CC abilities, we made it a base Arcane spell, where we don't expect that it will be a problem, since Arcane has less CC than the other Mage specs already. In its place, we've added a new talent,
.
- is no longer a Talent, and is instead learned by Arcane Mages.
- is a new Talent available at level 15.
: Fade into the nether, avoiding all attacks against you for 3 seconds. This spell may be cast while a cast-time spell is in progress and is not on the global cooldown. Replaces 얼음 방패. 45-second cooldown.
Going along with our goals to reduce cooldown stacking across all of the classes, we decided to remove
시간 돌리기's DPS contribution.
시간 돌리기 has a number of clever movement and utility uses, but in practice it was mostly being used for additional uptime of offensive cooldowns. Mages also had many redundant forms of survival utility, so we moved a utility-only version of
시간 돌리기 into the Talent tree, replacing Temporal Shield.
- Temporal Shield has been removed.
- 시간 돌리기 is now a level-30 Talent, replacing Temporal Shield.
시간 돌리기 now lasts for 15 seconds (up from 6 seconds), has a 90 second cooldown (down from 3 minutes), and no longer affects the casting Mage’s mana, buffs, or debuffs.
A few of the abilities reset by
were made spec-specific, or could be overridden with Talents, so we expanded what it can affect to compensate.
- now also resets the cooldown of , 용의 숨결, and .
The Mage Bomb level-75 Talent row, the Bomb row, was also problematic. We chose to add the Bombs to all Mages' rotations in order to spice them up a bit, to provide rotational variety. That succeeded, and we're overall happy with how they interact with your rotation in a single-target situation, but they also came with the prospect of multi-dotting (applying your damage-over-time spell to many enemies, individually), which we don't feel is an appropriate fit for Mages. Additionally, in order to make all 3 Bombs useful to all specializations, we had to lose some of their spec-specific perks. And, even more importantly, many Mages did not like DoT gameplay at all.
In order to solve all of these problems, we decided to merge the 3 current Bomb Talents into one that changes based on spec. That allows us to reintroduce spec-specific perks to each Bomb, and makes room for some non-DoT alternatives.
- 황천의 폭풍우, 살아있는 폭탄, and are now available to their corresponding specialization only, and share the left Talent slot.
황천의 폭풍우 can now only be on 1 target at a time (down from unlimited), but its secondary damage now hits all targets in range (up from only 1), and deals 100% of the primary damage (up from 50%). - 살아있는 폭탄 can once again be applied to multiple targets, can be spread by 화염 작렬, and has a normal 1.5 second cooldown. More of its damage has been moved into its explosion.
- has been redesigned. It now lasts 12 seconds, has no cooldown, and explodes every time the target is critically hit by the Mage's 얼음창. The damage per explosion has been reduced by 75% to compensate.
불안정한 마법 is a new Talent available at level 75, in the middle Talent slot.
- 불안정한 마법: 비전 작렬, 화염구, and 얼음 화살 have a 25% chance to explode on impact, dealing an additional 50% damage to the target, and all other enemies within 8 yards.
The right level-75 Talent slot is now filled by a new Talent that varies by specialization.
- 초신성: Cause a pulse of Arcane energy around the target enemy or ally, dealing Arcane damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and knocking them up. If the primary target is an enemy, they take 100% increased damage. Replaces Frost Nova. 25-second cooldown. Instant cast.
- 화염 폭풍: Cause an explosion of fiery force around the target enemy or ally, dealing Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and dazing them, reducing their movement speed by 70% for 4 seconds. If the primary target is an enemy, they take 100% increased damage. Replaces Frost Nova. 25-second cooldown. Instant cast.
- 서리 회오리: Cause a whirl of icy wind around the target enemy or ally, dealing Frost damage to all enemies within 8 yards, and freezing them for 4 sec. If the primary target is an enemy, they take 100% increased damage. Replaces Frost Nova. 20-second cooldown. Instant cast.
One of the most problematic Talent rows in the game has been the Mage level-90 row. The primary theme of the row was mana, which only Arcane Mages actually cared about. Bonus damage was added in, making it functional for all Mages, but muddled in its goals. Additionally, some of them just weren't fun to play with. We've revised the row to be purely about damage, and made them have less maintenance cost. Arcane Mages will have enough mana regeneration without these Talents to perform well.
- Invocation has been removed.
- 환영 복제 is now a level-90 Talent, replacing Invocation.
Mirror Images now inherit 50% of the Mage’s Spell Power (up from 5%).
마력의 룬 no longer replaces
환기, no longer increases mana regeneration, and now lasts 3 minutes (up from 1 minute).
Incanter's Ward has been removed.
주문술사의 흐름 is a new level-90 Talent, replacing Incanter's Ward.
- 주문술사의 흐름: Magical energy flows through you, increasing all spell damage done by 5% per stack. While in combat, the magical energy builds up to 5 stacks over 5 seconds and then diminishes down to 1 stack over 5 seconds. This cycle repeats every 10 seconds.
Frost Mages enjoyed newfound PvE viability in Mists of Pandaria, and we intend to continue that into the future. However, we do want to clean up some rough spots, especially around their valuing of secondary stats, and the amount of instant-cast spells in their rotation. The
and
산산조각 changes increase the amount of Haste/Critical chance that they can acquire on gear before they start hitting soft caps. The
산산조각 change also lowers the value of Critical Strike for a bit. The changes to the level-75 Talent row meant that having a Bomb spell is no longer guaranteed, so we changed the way that
is triggered. We also changed
's effect, in order to give Frost mages another cast-time spell in their rotation.
- now grants 15% chance to Multistrike instead of 7% Haste.
- now causes Icy Veins to provide 75% chance to Multistrike, instead of 20% Haste.
- Shatter now multiplies Critical Strike chance by 1.5 (down from 2).
- The effect no longer makes 진눈깨비 instant, but it can now stack to 2. It also no longer triggers from the Bomb Talents, and instead has a 10% chance to trigger from 얼음 화살 casts. Each Multistrike of 얼음 화살 increases that cast's chance by an additional 45%. (Total of 100% on double-Multistrikes).
In order to make room for more Haste effects to apply to
비전 작렬, we raised its cast time and damage slightly. We also made
last longer, to aid in questing and encounters.
- 비전 작렬's cast time has been increased to 2.25 seconds (up from 2 seconds), and its damage has been increased by 12.5% to compensate.
- now last 15 seconds (up from 10 seconds).
The brand-new class for Mists of Pandaria,
수도사s, turned out to be a ton of fun. Brewmasters stayed fairly solid all expansion long. Windwalkers needed a few tweaks here and there, especially to their Mastery, and still have a few shortcomings that we hope to improve, but overall worked quite well. Mistweavers had a bit of a rollercoaster ride, veering between weak and strong over the course of the expansion. Most of our changes to
수도사s will focus on Mistweavers, to try to get them just right.
About midway through the expansion, it became clear that mana was not valuable for Mistweavers. We tried some adjustments to solve that, but it proved too large of a change to make at the time. We chose to just live with that problem for the time being, and tune them around not really caring much about Spirit or mana (once they reached epic gear).
Now that we have the time to tweak things, and for Mistweavers to acquire new gear, we're going to make changes to get them in the right spot. Initially, we experimented with giving Mistwavers a 1-second GCD akin to that of the
도적 to give them a faster combat feel. However, it's proven difficult to balance. Haste is attractive to healers because it lowers not just cast time but GCD as well. Therefore,
수도사s valued Haste much less than other healers. We explored a few options, but ultimately landed on changing the core GCD for Mistweavers from 1 second to the standard 1.5 seconds, which you will be able to reduce with Haste. This will feel jarring at first, but we're confident that it's for the best, long-term.
- All abilities available to Mistweavers now have a 1.5 second global cooldown (up from 1 second).
시간차 and 맹호지세 now reduce the global cooldown of the 수도사’s abilities by 0.5 seconds.
no longer increases Haste from items by 50%.
is a new passive ability for Mistweaver
수도사s.
- : Haste effects lower the global cooldown of your spells and abilities.
짜릿한 비취 번개 no longer generates Chi for Mistweaver
수도사s.
위안의 안개 no longer generates Chi for Mistweaver
수도사s.
집중의 천둥 차 now causes the next
소생의 안개 to jump up to 4 times (used to cause the next Uplift to refresh the duration of
소생의 안개s on all targets).
Healing Spheres now heal an ally within 12yd (up from 6yd) for 100% (up from 50%) of their normal healing, when they expire.
is a new spell available to Mistweavers:
- : Instantly detonate all of your Healing Spheres, causing each of them to heal a nearby ally within 12 yards of the sphere. 15 sec cooldown.
Another issue with Mistweavers is that of
고대 수도원의 가르침, which has never really played out how we had hoped. The intent with
고대 수도원의 가르침 was to create an alternate play style to fulfill the fantasy of healing through dealing damage, since we knew a lot of players had that fantasy, and a new class was the perfect opportunity to satisfy that.
Having two play styles in one spec (
고대 수도원의 가르침, and traditional Mistweaving, healing primarily through casting heals) proved challenging to balance, because we don't want players to take the best parts of both and stack them into an unintended superior spec. The most notorious of these cases was "Jab-Jab-Uplift". In order to solve this problem, we're giving Mistweavers two stances.
will continue to be the stance from which to do traditional Mistweaving. The new
will be the stance to use for
고대 수도원의 가르침. You can swap stances at will, with only the cost of a GCD and any current Chi that you've accrued. The intention is that
allows Mistweavers to trade healing for damage; it should fall somewhere in the middle between being a full healer, and being a full damage dealer.
- is a new ability for Mistweaver 수도사s, which replaces 맹호지세.
The Spell-Power-to-Attack-Power conversion effect has been moved from to . - The 고대 수도원의 가르침 effect has been moved from to .
수도원의 가르침 now makes
회전 학다리차기 heal friends instead of damaging enemies, while in
(previously, it would heal allies in addition to damaging enemies).
Mastery: Gift of the Serpent’s Healing Spheres now scale with Spell Power instead of Attack Power.
Serpent's Zeal has been removed. Eminence now always includes Auto Attacks.
Muscle Memory and Vital Mists have been merged. Muscle Memory now requires
, and passively increases the damage of
짜릿한 비취 번개 by 100%, causes
to trigger the Vital Mists effect, and causes Blackout Kick to hit 4 additional nearby targets for 50% damage.
The following abilities now require
for Mistweavers:
The following abilities now require
for Mistweavers:
We also improved all
수도사 Healing Spheres. You'll no longer waste them when running over multiple at once when you only need a little healing. And we significantly improved the effect when Mistweavers' Healing Spheres expire. We also made
내세 Healing Spheres consistent with the rest of the class.
- When a player runs through multiple Healing Spheres at once, only as many as needed to heal the player to full health will be consumed (instead of all of them if the player is injured at all).
- Healing Spheres from 특화: 안개 돌풍 now heal an injured ally within 12 yards (up from 6 yards) for 100% (up from 50%) of their normal effect, when they expire.
- 내세’s Healing Sphere now heals for the same amount as other Healing Spheres (instead of healing for 15% of maximum health).
We also did some polishing on Brewmasters and Windwalkers. We made
폭풍과 대지와 불, Transcendence, and
절명의 손길 easier to use.
- 해탈: 전환 no longer has an energy or mana cost.
- 폭풍과 대지와 불 no longer has an energy cost, and is off the GCD.
- 절명의 손길 is now usable on targets that have 10% or less health remaining, or have less current health than your maximum health. The rules against players remain unchanged.
- 분노의 주먹 now always deal full damage to your primary target; additional targets are still affected by the damage split.
- now also causes Black Ox Statue to passively pulse a minor amount of threat to all enemies within 30 yards.
For
성기사s, we have a few tweaks in store. To compensate for the removal of
고대 왕의 수호자 from Holy, we merged its benefit into Divine Favor. We also raised the range of
선고 to be consistent with other spells. And for
정의의 망치, we revised its functionality a bit, such that its performance is about the same, but its tooltip is much clearer.
- now also increases all of the 성기사’s healing by 100% for its duration.
- 선고's range has increased to 40 yards (up from 30 yards).
- 정의의 망치 now deals 50% Physical weapon damage (up from 15%) to the primary target, but the primary target is no longer hit with the Holy damage.
- Seals no longer cost any mana.
- Stay of Execution (the Holy version of Execution Sentence) now deals its healing in a large burst at first, and then decreasing over time (reversed from before).
- now deals 100% of the direct healing of 영광의 서약 (up from 70%), but only 50% as much periodic healing as before. Additionally, Bastion of Glory no longer affects the periodic healing.
We've made a few significant changes to
사제s as well, focused mostly on reining in Discipline absorbs, improving quality of life for both healing
사제 specializations, and solving single-target damage issues for Shadow.
속죄 was the original damage-to-healing conversion ability, but grew out of control during Mists of Pandaria. We decided to reduce its effectiveness, to bring it more in line with our goal of it being an option to trade significant healing for significant damage (ending up somewhere between a full healer and a full damage dealer). Another place where Discipline's absorbs were too strong was in their interaction with the level-90 Talents, especially in large Raids. Near the end of Mists of Pandaria, we uncapped the AoE healing of that Talent row; that has proven to be a mistake in Discipline's case, not because it caused the level-90 Talents themselves to heal for too much, but rather because the gigantic overhealing that that produced translated into gigantic Divine Aegis absorbs. To get back to a balanced place, we've reapplied the AoE caps to the level-90 Talents, making them consistent with all other AoE heals.
- 속죄 now heals for 25% less than before.
- 후광 and 천상의 별 now follow standard AoE capping rules.
For Holy
사제s, our biggest concern is with the Chakras. We think that Chakras are the defining abilities of Holy
사제s, but that they haven't lived up to their potential. We decided to move more of their effectiveness from their raw throughput buff (which felt like a penalty for being in the wrong chakra, rather than a bonus for being in the right Chakra) into the Holy Word spells that they grant. We also returned
소생 to a normal 1.5-second global cooldown (GCD), so that
소생 blanketing is still possible, but less ideal without Haste.
- now increases healing of single-target spells by 10% (down from 25%).
- now heals for 40% more than before.
- now increases healing of area-of-effect spells by 10% (down from 25%).
- now heals for 60% more than before.
- Rapid 소생al no longer reduces the global cooldown of 소생.
Shadow
사제s had one large problem toward the end of Mists of Pandaria: single-target damage. Their AoE and multi-DoT damage was some of the best around, so they still ended up competitive on most fights. But, in any fight that was mostly single-target, they felt lacking. Additionally, one of the new stats we're adding in Warlords of Draenor, Multistrike, is almost exactly what their current Mastery, Shadowy Recall, does for DoTs. So, we took these two problems and came up with a change that we think will solve both of them. The result is a new Mastery, which primarily increases single-target damage. Shadow
사제s who want to focus on single-target damage can aim for Mastery in their gearing; or, when multi-dotting is more valuable, prefer other secondary stats over Mastery.
- Shadow 사제’s Mastery (Shadowy Recall) has been replaced with a new 특화: 광란.
특화: 광란: Increases the damage of 정신 분열, Mind Spike, Mind Flay, and Mind Sear by 20%.
There are a few other miscellaneous changes. One is a quality-of-life change for healing
사제s. The other is a fix for a problem with
공허의 촉수, where it lasts its full duration against creatures that had no way to attack it (such as in certain Raid encounters). Note that the health reduction is to keep it where it was in health, compared to player health doubling. The third is an efficient AoE healing spell for Discipline
사제s.
- 회복의 기원 from multiple 사제s can now be on the same target, and can be on multiple targets from the same 사제.
- 공허의 촉수 now have 10% of the 사제’s health (down from 20%), and damage dealt to the rooted target is now also dealt to the Void Tendril itself.
- 천사의 깃털, if cast on players, will always prefer the casting 사제 over others, then pick the player closest to the targeted location. If there are no players where it is targeted, it will still create a feather that can be picked up, as before. Additionally, when collecting multiple feathers, the duration will be extended, instead of replaced.
- 신성한 폭발 is no longer available via a Major Glyph, and is instead a Discipline specialization spell. Its mana cost has been lowered and its healing increased. It is intended as the efficient area-of-effect (AoE) healing spell for Discipline 사제s.
- , 천상의 별, and 후광 no longer heal allies but are instant cast for Shadow 사제s, or damage enemies for Discipline or Holy 사제s.
In our efforts to reduce cooldown stacking across the game, we chose to remove the damage increase from
속임수 거래. And second, we decided to loosen the weapon requirements on Assassination. It's important to note that we still intend for daggers to be the optimal choice for Assassination
도적s, but this change will help
도적s who want to try out Assassination but don't have two daggers.
- 속임수 거래 now has no energy cost and no longer increases damage caused by the target by 15%.
- no longer requires daggers to function.
- 사각 지대 can now be used with fist weapons or one-handed swords, dealing 331% weapon damage (instead of 480%) when used with those weapons instead of a dagger.
- 절단 can now be used with fist weapons or one-handed swords, dealing 137% weapon damage (instead of 200%) when used with those weapons instead of a dagger.
- 사악한 일격 now deals 188% weapon damage when used with a dagger (instead of 130%).
is an interesting mechanic that is important to Combat gameplay, but wasn't working out quite as well as we think that it could. In particular, there's basically no way to adjust when you're going to be in Deep Insight, other than stopping your rotation (and thus wasting energy, combo points, temporary effects, cooldown time, etc.). So, we're making an adjustment to
and
. The intention here is that you can use
in place of
사악한 일격 when you want to delay Deep Insight (such as to line it up with a specific upcoming fight mechanic), and have little lost damage besides the overall Deep Insight uptime. We don't expect this nuanced rotation adjustment to be used by all Combat
도적s, but having a little more control over the pace of your rotation will be useful to some.
- now deals 20% more damage, but no longer advances .
Among some other changes to
도적 AoE damage, we wanted to make sure that Fan of Knives benefitted from
운명의 낙인.
- 운명의 낙인 now also grants a combo point for area attacks that critically strike the 도적's primary target.
is an extremely powerful ability, but has the downside that it adds significant disparity between character power while soloing and while in a group. We made this change to bring up the soloing Subtlety
도적, without having a significant impact on their performance while in a group.
- can now also be triggered by critical hits from the 도적's melee Auto Attacks.
A couple of
도적 abilities do periodic damage, but don't have an intended alternative if that periodic is already on the target. We made these abilities roll remaining damage from their previous effect into the new effect, so that it's still ideal to use them again in these cases.
- 혈폭풍's periodic damage now has rolling periodic behavior, meaning that remaining damage from the previous application is added into the newly-applied periodic-damage effect.
- 과다출혈's periodic damage now has rolling periodic behavior, meaning that remaining damage from the previous application is added into the newly-applied periodic-damage effect.
기만 has proved too powerful, and frustrating to play against in PvP, so we decided to reduce its defensive capabilities, while preserving its offensive power. We changed the
기만 period to allow the use of stealth abilities without actually stealthing you, similar to
.
- 기만 now allows you to use abilities that require stealth for 3 sec after leaving Stealth, instead of actually staying stealthed for 3 sec.
주술사 has received a variety of changes, most of which are specialization-specific.
For Elemental and Enhancement, we had a few problems to solve. Enhancement suffers from having their damage split among so many damage sources that none of it feels impressive. We changed the damage of several abilities to try to reorganize their damage into fewer, more impactful abilities, while keeping the net total the same. For a long time Elemental
주술사 were one of the specs most impacted by movement, at a time where other casters were increasingly able to cast while moving.
For Warlords of Draenor, we're pulling back on the ability for many casters to deal damage while moving, and that includes Elemental. They will still have some ability to deal damage while moving, through Shocks, Unleash Weapon, and instant
용암 폭발s. For
, we wanted to reduce the impact of Haste soft capping, and so changed
주술사ism to increase damage instead of reduce cast time. Additionally, we simplified
날카로운 바람 by removing its impact on threat, which no longer matters.
- 불타는 토템: Searing Bolt damage increased by 65%.
- Earth Elemental deals 90% less Auto Attack damage.
- Primal Earth Elemental's Pulverize ability no longer deals damage.
- no longer deals direct damage, but now increases the damage of the 주술사’s next Fire spell by 40% (up from 30%).
- Unleash Frost no longer deals direct damage, but now always snares the target by 70% (rather than only when the target is already snared by a Frost spell).
- Unleash Wind no longer deals direct damage, but now increases attack speed by 60% (up from 50%).
- is no longer castable while moving by default. Effects like 영혼나그네의 은총 can still make the spell castable while moving.
- no longer reduces the cast time of , but instead now increases the damage of by 100% (up from 70%).
- 날카로운 바람 no longer affects threat.
- no longer has a 3-second internal cooldown.
Restoration
주술사 had the most passive and smart healing of any healer, and so received some reductions in that area, along with buffs elsewhere to keep them competitive. One particular change is to Mana Tide Totem, which we made less effective for other players, but still just as effective for the
주술사. We like that
주술사 could help other healers out on mana, but it was just too strong, significantly impacting how those other healers gear themselves.
- 연쇄 치유 now heals each chain target for 15% less than the previous target.
- 생명 폭발 no longer increases the healing from 치유의 비.
- now increases healing done by 5% (instead of increasing healing Spell Power by a flat amount).
- 치유의 토템’s mana cost has been reduced to 10% of base mana (down from 23.5%), and its healing has been reduced by 50%.
- now only increases the mana returned from recalling your totems by 25% (down from 75%).
- now increases the Spirit of allies by 50% (down from 200% of the 주술사's Spirit). It remains unchanged (200%) for the 주술사 activating the totem, and it still ignores temporary Spirit buffs.
- is no longer triggered by damaging spells for Restoration 주술사, or by healing spells for non-Restoration 주술사.
흑마법사s received a number of cut abilities (see Ability Pruning above), but remain relatively unchanged. They saw the most change of any class in Mists of Pandaria, and so were in need of less revision this time around.
We did feel that
흑마법사s brought too much unique Raid utility, so decided to tone down Healthstones and
악마의 관문. We moved Healing Potions and Healthstones into a cooldown of their own, and made them usable once per combat. For
, we reduced the base healing somewhat, but massively increased the effectiveness of the Glyph which increases its healing, so as to help open up more potential
use in ideal situations. And lastly, we simplified
어둠의 연소 a bit.
- Healthstone's cooldown will now not reset until the player leaves combat. Healing from this ability can no longer be a Critical Effect.
- 악마의 관문s no longer have charges (up from being limited to 5 charges). Every Party or Raid member can use them once every 90 seconds (up from 45 seconds). The maximum distance apart they can be placed is now 40 yards (down from 70 yards).
- now heals for 30% less than before.
- now increases the healing of by 100% (up from 30%).
- 어둠의 연소 no longer generates any mana.
We wanted to fix a few problems with
전사s. First, we still weren't happy with Arms' rotation (and neither were many players), so we've made some more changes, primarily through cutting abilities (see Ability Pruning above).
As with other classes, we wanted to reduce cooldown stacking. Cutting Skull Banner did a ton to help that across the whole game. But for
전사s specifically, we needed to make further changes, including merging some of the personal benefit of Skull Banner back into
무모한 희생. Also, to make up for Throw being removed, we modified
영웅의 투척 to be more frequently usable.
- 무모한 희생 now increases Critical Strike chance by 15% (down from 30%) and increases Critical Strike damage by 10% (up from 0%).
- 분쇄의 투척 no longer reduces the armor of the target; it only does damage and breaks immunities.
- It also is no longer learned via any specialization, but instead through a new Major Glyph, .
- 영웅의 투척 now has a 6-second cooldown (down from 30 seconds), but now has a 15 yard minimum range.
Haste has long been a problematic stat for
전사s, usually being of little value. As part of our commitment to ensuring all secondary stats are valuable (except Bonus Armor for non-tanks and Spirit for non-healers, of course), we're making a significant change to
전사s, to ensure that Haste has strong, competitive value. We're giving all
전사s a new passive, which lets haste affect their global cooldown, and the cooldowns of their very-short-cooldown rotational abilities.
- is a new passive ability for 전사s:
: Haste reduces global cooldown and the cooldowns of 필사의 일격, 피의 갈증, 방패 밀쳐내기, and 천둥벼락.
Protection
전사s have received a few notable changes. First, we removed Dodge and Parry from gear, and expect Protection
전사s to value Haste and Crit as important secondary stats. In order to achieve that, we made
give defensive value to Crits. The aforementioned
also helps for valuing Haste.
- has been redesigned.
gives the 전사 +100% to Parry chance until they Parry an attack after getting a critical strike with an Auto Attack.
A few
전사 Talents also were in need of revision. First,
재기의 바람 was problematic; it was sometimes too weak, and sometimes too strong. We chose to change it from a passive health regeneration effect to the new Leech effect, so that low-health
전사s have to maintain combat in order to benefit, instead of kiting, hiding, or otherwise playing defensively. For the level-60 and level-90 Talent rows, certain combinations were proving problematic. We decided that
폭풍망치 would better compete with
충격파 and
용의 포효, and that
칼날폭풍 would better compete with
투신 and
, so swapped
폭풍망치 and
칼날폭풍's positions.
- 재기의 바람 no longer directly heals the 전사 while active. Instead, 재기의 바람 grants the 전사 10% Leech while active, which causes the 전사 to heal for 10% of all damage and healing done by the 전사 while active.
- 칼날폭풍 is now a level-90 Talent, swapping places with 폭풍망치.
칼날폭풍 no longer allows use of Shouts while active. It does still allow the use of 도발, , 방패의 벽, and 최후의 저항.
폭풍망치 is now a level-60 Talent, swapping places with
칼날폭풍.
Fury
전사s are receiving updates to spell alerts to improve usability.
- ’s spell alert has moved to the top slot instead of the left/right slots.
- 분노의 강타 now has a spell alert on the left and right slots.
With the introduction of one of the level-100
전사 Talents, which deals Fire damage, we also expanded
to affect all damage, not just Physical damage.
- now increases all damage (up from only Physical damage).
- 특화: 구속되지 않은 분노 (Fury) now increases all damage (up from only Physical damage).
We're also making a change to the design of
치명상, to try to limit is effectiveness in PvP, without hurting its effectiveness in PvE.
- 치명상 now lasts 15 seconds, or until the target is healed to full health.